From the author of the bestselling Machu Picchu Guide - book comes a jaw-droppingly gorgeous photographic journey through the incredible feat of architecture, art, and design that is Machu Picchu, one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. Wright s pictures and captions guide you gently through the well-preserved ruins, revealing their expansive harmony with the noble mountainscape that surrounds them, and at times pulling in close to observe the intricate details and ingenuities characteristic of the Inca who built them. Ruth M. Wright wove a thirty-year fascination with Machu Picchu into an authorized investigation when she and her husband, Ken Wright of Wright Water Engineers, were granted a permit in 1994 from the Instituto Nacional de Cultura de Peru to conduct ongoing studies of the site. She lives in Boulder.